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Mrs. F.

2020 · 79 min

A patient, hopeful look at theatre as activism, watching women find their voices amid hardship and quiet resistance.

Directed by
Chris van der Vorm
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Ifeoma Fafunwa, Mrs. F., takes up the challenge of staging her play HEAR WORD! about the abuse of women in male-dominated Makoko, a slum with houses on stilts in the lagoon of Lagos. Besides the original cast of Nigeria’s most acclaimed actresses, Ifeoma will cast young women in Makoko who are subject to the same fate as many of the women in Nigeria. Ifeoma connects with them through her personal struggle with her background. Can Ifeoma set a transformation in motion in the heart of the fastest growing city in the world that breaks with the silence culture in Nigeria?

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Directed by
Chris van der Vorm
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • gender
  • power
  • class
  • art
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism10
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Chris van der Vorm
Written by
Tamara Vuurmans
Cinematography
Bert Haitsma
Runtime
79 min
Country
Nigeria, Netherlands
Languages
English

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